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Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaFʿīL – otherwise found only in يَعْضِيد(yaʕḍīd, “Launaea mucronata”) and يَعْقِيد(yaʕqīd, “thickened honey”) – but connected to the root ق ط ن(q-ṭ-n), so perhaps from a Semiticsubstrate.
Noun
يَقْطِين• (yaqṭīn) m (singulativeيَقْطِينَة(yaqṭīna))
Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 292
“Yaqṭīn as substratum vocabulary?”, in Jabal al-Lughat, 2018 June 26
Wehr, Hans (1979) “يقطين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 912
